Daily Trojan Editor Revisits a Very Careless USC Shooting Night Tweet
It’s by now a familiar journalism trope: itemizing some of the inaccurate tweets, Facebook posts and online reports tied to a breaking news event.
In the case of Wednesday night’s Halloween party-related shooting on the USC campus, the trope encompassed an especially egregious Twitter turn. Per an an op ed in The Daily Trojan by managing editor Joey Kaufman:
One journalism student from Annenberg claimed the gunman was located on the third floor of the campus center. This eventually evolved into a rumor that the shooter was on the third floor of the Student Union building, just below the Daily Trojan’s offices.
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